By: Derek Hawkins//February 14, 2017//
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case Name: Douglas A. Bird v. Nancy A. Berryhill
Case No.: 16-2000
Officials: WOOD, Chief Judge, and POSNER and KANNE, Circuit Judges
Focus: Disability Insurance Benefits
The Social Security Administration denied Douglas Bird’s application for disability insurance benefits. After he sought judicial review, 42 U.S.C. § 405(g), the Commissioner agreed with him that the agency’s adverse decision should be set aside and moved that the matter be remanded for further proceedings before an administrative law judge. But that proposal did not satisfy Bird, who wanted the district court to bypass further proceedings before an ALJ and instead simply direct the agency to award him benefits. The district court refused, precipitating this appeal.
Affirmed